On the phony pretext of seeking to reduce the High Court of Justice’s caseload, extremist Knesset members will vote this week on a repressive bill to limit the right of Palestinians to challenge illegal settlement construction on stolen land. Continue reading
Like America and other Western states, democracy in Israel is pure fantasy, absent from inception. Continue reading
Israel holds Gazans hostage under an illegal blockade since mid-2007—unrelated to security issues, solely for political reasons. Continue reading
Long gone from the High Court are towering figures like William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, the court’s finest hours during their tenure—champions of justice for all. Continue reading
Nominating another right-wing extremist to the nation’s High Court surprised no one. Continue reading
Duplicity and betrayal define US relations with other nations and its own ordinary people—ill-served, abused and exploited in deference to its privileged class. Continue reading
When it comes to fundamental Palestinians rights, Netanyahu operates like a tinpot despot. Continue reading
US support and encouragement lets Israel get away with mass murder and much more. Its longstanding plans call for stealing and annexing all valued Judea and Samaria land. Continue reading
Politics in Mexico and Chicago are similar. Former city Alderman Paddy Bauler long ago said it best: “Chicago ain’t ready for reform.” Continue reading
On Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, effective end of July. Continue reading
America is a land of extremes—unprecedented wealth enjoyed by a privileged few contrasted with deep poverty because of neoliberal harshness, bipartisan force-fed austerity, grievously harming the nation’s most vulnerable. Continue reading
Make no mistake. Trump is a rogue actor, a despicable character, serving his privileged class exclusively at the expense of most others, the nation’s least advantaged harmed most by his hostile agenda, besides unspeakable horrors inflicted on countless millions abroad. Continue reading
Trump’s extremist agenda is hostile to what equitable societies cherish. Continue reading
Hundreds of thousands of unwanted immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers are arrested and detained under horrific conditions in America annually. Continue reading
America is being systematically thirdworldized—notably since the neoliberal ‘90s, escalated under Bush/Cheney, social justice further assaulted under Obama. Continue reading
Things are getting serious. Tit-for-tat tariff announcements assure losers, not winners, if implemented and stick. Continue reading
The pattern is familiar. Ongoing violence in Nicaragua has the earmarks of another US-staged color revolution attempt. Continue reading
Federal courts are supremely pro-business, including the nation’s highest one throughout its history. Continue reading
Media scoundrels violate core principles of what journalism is supposed to be—displaying shocking contempt for truth-telling. Continue reading
Negative fallout ahead is more likely than overall ongoing afterglow continuing longer than short or perhaps intermediate term—the way US agreements most always play out. Continue reading
The battle for digital democracy, the last frontier of press freedom crucial to preserve, continues on a day that will live infamy if right doesn’t triumph over pure evil. Continue reading
Last Wednesday, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management members held a hearing on US “War Powers and the Effects of Unauthorized Military Engagements on Federal Spending.” Continue reading
The report has things backwards—Britain waging political, propaganda, and economic war on Russia, along with Washington and their rogue allies, not the other way around. Continue reading
Sergey and Yulia recovered enough from whatever harmed them to be released from hospitalization—clearly not a Novichok military-grade nerve agent as falsely claimed—able to cause death in minutes. Continue reading
America’s First Amendment prohibits Congress from passing laws suppressing speech, press and religious freedoms—along with the right to peacefully assemble and petition government for redress of grievances. Continue reading
Anti-social media Facebook’s intention to rank what it considers “trustworthiness” of news sources is the organization’s latest censorship scheme. Continue reading
Like Trump, Netanyahu is a serial liar. Neither one can be trusted. Nothing they claim on vital issues is credible. Deception and Big Lies substitute for truth-telling. Continue reading
April 14 US, UK, French aggression in Syria failed to achieve its objective, despite Pentagon claims otherwise. Continue reading
They also escalate ongoing conflicts—incidents staged to deceive, one party falsely accused of something conducted by someone else. Continue reading
Democracy in America is pure fantasy, money-controlled elections farcical when held. Continue reading
The nation’s founders created a system, empowering its privilege class alone to rule—democracy the way it should be an anathema notion rejected throughout US history. Continue reading
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Raging Russophobia in America
Posted on July 19, 2018 by Stephen Lendman
I was an adolescent when the Cold War began. I remember the “father of (Soviet Russia) containment” George Kennan and Winston Churchill’s 1946 Fulton, MO, “Iron Curtain” speech—later writing about what they both had to say. Continue reading →